Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown ...
... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown ...
Pagina 9
... lines of certainty become more and more definite , and the shades of probability more and more distinct , the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which the poet calls up grow fainter and fainter . We cannot unite the incompatible ...
... lines of certainty become more and more definite , and the shades of probability more and more distinct , the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which the poet calls up grow fainter and fainter . We cannot unite the incompatible ...
Pagina 19
... lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in proportion ; so that the bank , which concealed him from ...
... lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in proportion ; so that the bank , which concealed him from ...
Pagina 26
... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is per- haps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is per- haps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
Pagina 41
... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Of that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Of that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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